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FSU Trustees Hear From Panama City Campus Blue Ribbon Panel
8-months ago, F-S-U President T. K. Wetherell told the board of trustees of the university that budget cuts may force the university to close the Panama City branch campus.
Friday morning local campus representatives presented that same board of trustees with their plan to make the Panama City campus self-sustaining within the next 2-and-a-half years.
The plan is the fruits of 6-months of labor by a blue ribbon committee made up of local community leaders. The main thrust of the plan is for the local campus to increase full-time enrollment to 14- hundred students by the beginning of the 2011 fall semester.
Trustees seemed impressed with the blue ribbon committee's work.
Jim Smith is the trustees’ chairman. "I think they were down about eight or nine hundred students before, now they're up about twelve hundred. So, I'm satisfied they'll make the fourteen hundred and that will be a campus that will well serve northwest Florida."
The plan also emphasizes a closer working relationship with Gulf Coast Community College and more involvement from the local community.
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